Melissa+Gallagher

=   =  Room: **Magnolia C**

= Important Paradigm Learning: Reconsidering Creativity =

= **Melissa Gallagher** =
 * **Carlisle High School**
 * **Carlisle Area School District**
 * ** Art Department Chair & Yearbook Adviser **
 * ** gallaghm@carlisleschools.org **

Much of what is taught in schools today falls into the category of export paradigm. We teach facts and ask students to remember information that might come in handy someday on a test, but we rarely ask students to do authentic work with the information we are teaching. The import paradigm asks students to use knowledge in a serious way for complex and signification endeavors //right now// and in the best of all worlds, //also later.// This session will promote discussion among participants about how to involve students in genuine and authentic creative thinking and learning. Participants will consider the new Blooms Taxonomy, import/export paradigm thinking and a model for how the creative thinking process works to generate ideas about projects and assignments that could get students involved in authentic high levels of creative thinking.

Some related sources:

Shift Happens 2010 Excellent YouTube that presents data and information in a creative way and gives the viewer something to think about. Steve Jobs Commencement Speach You never know when something you've learned might come in handy. Mel Chin's Revival Field Increasingly, creative people work in an interdisciplinary way. Chin's work crosses boundaries between art and science.